Guess what happens when you are prone to kidney stones, you race a hot horrible race and get dehydrated, and you drink the race course beverage which has in one bottle 300% of your RDA of vitamin C?
If you answered you get a kidney stone, give yourself one point.
If you answered you get a kidney stone while trapped in DC at a mandatory meeting, give yourself two points.
If you answered you get a kidney stone while trapped in DC at a mandatory meeting while giving a presentation and feeling like you will either pass out or throw up in front of a co-worker and two rival companies, give yourself three points.
Seriously, they should come with an alarm bell.
Luckily I've been through this before, so armed with a bridge prescription and painkillers I spent the afternoon in my pajamas wishing for death, and hoping to goodness that the rain would not mean evacuation again.
Now comes the question:
My beloved doctor who is also a runner, wants me to take Levaquin to protect the kidney from an infection. However, Levaquin has been linked to tendon rupture. And my bicep tendon is inflamed like 40% of the time now, and I have some pretty serious events coming up.
Do I shut my pie hole and take the Levaquin, or do I take the B team drug and wait and see if I get sick?
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Please don't take the Levaquin! I'm a survivor of huge side effects by this drug, I call poison - I'm 53 and now have Peripheral Neuraopthy, a very painful nerve disease caused by Levaquin. Stay away from any Quinolone antibiotic such as Levaquin, Cipro, etc.
Update:
Thanks to some advice by a pharmacist, I did not end up taking it.
Took a lower level antibiotic which seems to have been fine.
After reading all the class action lawsuit information, I'm not sure I would take it again unless it was absolutely necessary.
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